To commemorate the International Year of Statistics, the Puerto Rico Institute of Statistics, the University of Puerto Rico at Cayey and its Institute for Interdisciplinary Research will hold the Puerto Rico Population Studies Conference. The objectives of the Conference are:

1. Highlight the importance of population studies in the globalized world and examine the current state and challenges for Puerto Rico.
2. Promote a meeting between professionals in this area and related disciplines to exchange knowledge, interests and perspectives in the field of population studies.
3. Generate alliances between the academy, the private sector and the government sector to draw up a work agenda to address the demographic challenges faced by Puerto Rico in the 21st century.

CEPPR Presentations

• Student Demography
  • Student Demography
• Importance of Demography
  • Importance of Population Studies
  • Contributions of the ECLAC conference to the regional debate
• Demography in Puerto Rico
  • Fertility, its characteristics and the aging of the Puerto Rican population
  • The Immigrant Population in Puerto Rico
  • Mortality in Puerto Rico
• Census Bureau
  • U.S. Census Bureau Population Data for Puerto Rico
• Diaspora
  • Mickey Ricans? The recent Puerto Rican diaspora in Florida
  • Puerto Ricans at the Dawn of the New Millennium
  • Puerto Rican Migration in the 21st Century (Spaniard | English)
• Demographic challenge and health disparities in Puerto Rico
  • Disparities in HPV-related cancer occurrence in Puerto Rico
  • Demographic and Socioeconomic Plan of Puerto Rico

Materials

• Prog Videos

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• Federal Register
• Bilingual questionnaire proposed by the federal government for the 2010 Census
• Federal government B.13 evaluation report on the question of race in Puerto Rico in the 2000 Census
• Comments submitted by the Institute in response to the public comment period

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Poster Presentation

Webinar materials

• IPUMS-International Samples Available to Researchers
• Where in the world are Puerto Ricans? ... and what are they doing there?
• 10 tips for obtaining census samples and documentation from IPUMS-International (Spanish)
• 10 tips for obtaining census samples and documentation from IPUMS-International (English)
• Integrated variables for Puerto Rico — IPUMS International
• IPUMS integrated variables — USA

Practice exercises Where in the World are Puerto Ricans?

• IPUMS — USA & Puerto Rico

Tutorials

• IPUMS International home page
• Online data analysis
• How to download the data
• How to get the data
• How to register
• How to see a description of the sample, How to obtain data for small areas
• How to view source documents
• How to extract data from Puerto Ricans abroad
• How to provide classes with IPUMS
• How to explore variable metadata

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